Load view from an external xib file in storyboard

Question

I want to use a view throughout multiple viewcontrollers in a storyboard. Thus, I thought about designing the view in an external xib so changes are reflected in every viewc

Answer 1

I think about alternative for using XIB views to be using View Controller in separate storyboard.

Then in main storyboard in place of custom view use container view with Embed Segue and have StoryboardReference to this custom view controller which view should be placed inside other view in main storyboard.

Then we can set up delegation and communication between this embed ViewController and main view controller through prepare for segue. This approach is different then displaying UIView, but much simpler and more efficiently (from programming perspective) can be utilised to achieve the same goal, i.e. have reusable custom view that is visible in main storyboard

The additional advantage is that you can implement you logic in CustomViewController class and there set up all delegation and view preparation without creating separate (harder to find in project) controller classes, and without placing boilerplate code in main UIViewController using Component. I think this is good for reusable components ex. Music Player component (widget like) that is embeddable in other views.